top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-12

Carnegie Mellon CS Professor challenges Sony by mirroring Geohot's PS3 hacks

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/GeoHot/

16 years ago

For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?

http://superuser.com/questions/231273/for-what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used

16 years ago

A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext/TPJ13.pod#A_Localization_Horror_Story:_It_Could_Happen_To_You

16 years ago

On Not Hiring

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/01/on-not-hiring.html

16 years ago

Arbor.js - HTML5 graph visualization library

http://arborjs.org/

16 years ago

10 Questions for John Gruber Regarding H.264, WebM

http://www.osnews.com/story/24245/10_Questions_for_John_Gruber_Regarding_H_264_WebM

16 years ago

PS3 Root Key Hacker Sued

http://www.geohot.com/

16 years ago

Secrets of BackType's (YC S08) Data Engineers

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/secrets-of-backtypes-data-engineers.php

16 years ago

Bitterness, Anger And Betrayal At MySpace

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/11/bitterness-anger-and-betrayal-at-myspace/

16 years ago

Drunk scientists pour wine on superconductors and make an incredible discovery

http://io9.com/5731129/drunken-scientists-pour-alcohol-on-superconductors-and-make-an-incredible-discovery

16 years ago

Google Turns Your Android Phone Into An On-The-Fly Conversation Interpreter

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/12/android-translations/

16 years ago

So Who Really Owns Facebook? (Chart)

http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2011/01/12/so-who-really-owns-facebook-chart/

16 years ago

Southwest Airlines pilot holds plane for murder victim’s family

http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/southwest-airlines-pilot-holds-plane-for-murder-victim%E2%80%99s-family/

16 years ago

"this gem is awesome".to_spanish # = "esta joya es impresionante"

https://github.com/jimmycuadra/to_lang

16 years ago

★ 294 Ruby MIT

PEP 3333 Accepted: WSGI standard for Python 3.x

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/web-sig/2011-January/004979.html

16 years ago

(Android) Developer Income Report #6

http://www.kreci.net/reports/developer-income-report-6/

16 years ago

Apple will not allow Verizon to preload software on iPhone

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/11/apple_will_not_allow_verizon_to_preload_software_on_iphone.html

16 years ago

The PHP strtod() denial of service bug

http://blog.andreas.org/display?id=9

16 years ago

Programming Innocence

http://projectb14ck.org/programming-innocence

16 years ago

On Getting Traction, by Gabriel Weinberg

http://tractionbook.com/

16 years ago

World IPv6 Day: firing up the engines on the new Internet protocol

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/world-ipv6-day-firing-up-engines-on-new.html

16 years ago

My, what strange NOPs you have!

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/01/12/10114521.aspx

16 years ago

Confirmed: Personal Hotspot feature coming to all iPhones in iOS 4.3

http://www.bgr.com/2011/01/12/confirmed-personal-hotspot-feature-coming-to-all-iphones-in-ios-4-3/

16 years ago

An Open Letter from the President of the United States of Google

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2011/01/11/an-open-letter-from-the-president-of-the-united-states-of-google.aspx

16 years ago

Sony suing fail0verflow & geohot over PS3 jailbreak [pdf]

http://geohot.com/Motion%20For%20TRO.pdf

16 years ago

The "Machiavellian Reality" -- speech by Robert Greene

http://www.powerseductionandwar.com/archives/robert_greene_yale_speech.phtml

16 years ago

When They Are Throwing Money At You

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/01/when-they-are-throwing-money-at-you.html

16 years ago

Tell HN: Flooded area in Queensland now the size of Texas

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2095134

16 years ago

Secret businesses aimed to exploit vaccine fears, British Medical Journal finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110111184129.htm

16 years ago

Real World F#

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2011/01/12/f-for-energy-trading-and-energy-portfolio-optimization.aspx

16 years ago

Plans for Gimp 2.8 and beyond

http://www.gimp.org/

16 years ago

Frickin’ Laser Beams: Fact vs Fiction

http://martianchronicles.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/frickin-laser-beams-fact-vs-fiction/

16 years ago

Clarium Loses 90% From Peak After Thiel Hedge Fund Has Third Losing Year

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-12/clarium-hedge-fund-shrinks-90-as-thiel-has-third-losing-year.html

16 years ago

T-Mobile caps smartphone users' data at 500 MB/month

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/windows-watch/2011/01/so-apparently-t-mobile-hates-its-customers/index.htm

16 years ago

Digital Needle - Playing phonograph records with a scanner

http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/

16 years ago

Software engineers hard to find

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-10-17/business/ct-biz-1017-out-technology-20101017_1_software-engineers-chicago-developers-tech-jobs

16 years ago

It's a polyglot world after all - Lift adding support for JRuby

http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/f1638df7fbdd7b42

16 years ago

Switching from Delicious to CouchDB

http://xlson.com/2011/01/13/out-off-delicious-and-into-your-couch.html

16 years ago

Cork'd to Shut Down

http://content.corkd.com/2011/01/12/corkd-the-final-tasting-note/

16 years ago

Curation is the New Search is the New Curation

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2011/01/curation_is_the.html

16 years ago

An Interview with C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup

http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/misc/print.php/c18357/An-Interview-with-C-Creator-Bjarne-Stroustrup.htm

16 years ago

Your Random Numbers – Getting Started with Processing and Data Visualization

http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/your-random-numbers-getting-started-with-processing-and-data-visualization

16 years ago

Mixpanel (YC S09) Gets A UI Makeover; Monthly Data Volume Growing By 40 Percent

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/12/mixpanel-gets-a-ui-makeover-monthly-data-volume-growing-by-40-percent/

16 years ago

Mozilla Labs Game Gallery

https://gaming.mozillalabs.com/games/

16 years ago